buddies and allies to overturn the 2020 election. as we reported on this program at this hour yesterday, mark short, he s of course the former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence, testified before a d.c. grand jury last week. now according to new multiple reports, we also know that a second senior pence aide also testified. that would be greg jacob, pence s legal counsel. both men, of course, had a front row seat to the extraordinary pressure campaign on mike pence by trump and his allies, people like john eastman, to get pence to stop the certification of president joe biden s election victory on january 6th. wall street journal reports these stunning details about their testimony. quote, one area of interest to prosecutors was a january 4th, 2021, oval office meeting where conservative lawyer john eastman pushed pence in trump s presence to either reject the electoral votes outright or suspend the proceedings and asked several state legislatures to re-examine
expecting their fourth child. teigen making the emotional announcement on her instagram page saying the last four years have been a blur of emotions and she breathes a sigh of relief every day she hears a heart beet. of course, this announcement comes nearly two years after she suffered a pregnancy loss at 20 weeks of their third child. so congratulations to them. and new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, august 4th, i m brianna keilar with john avalon in for john berman. good morning. good morning. so this morning the new cnn reporting suggests the criminal investigation into the january 6th insurrection is getting ever closer to donald trump himself. sources say patrick philbin former deputy white house counsel has been subpoenaed by the department of justice. that comes on the heels of his former boss, white house counsel pat cipollone, also being served with a grand jury subpoena. as one of the
capitol on his behalf. here were witnesses including jared kushner on what was behind that statement. i sat and spoke to miller about putting together for draft remarks for jan 7 that we were going to present to the president that we felt we had to call for further de-escalation. from what i understood at the time and from the reports coming in there s a large concern of 25th amendment potentially being invoked and there were concerns about would happen in the senate if the 25th was invoked so the primary reason that i had heard other than, you know, we did not do enough on the 6th and we need a stronger message to get out there otherwise this will be the legacy and think about what might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don t do this. there are already talks about invoking the 25th amendment. so to be clear according to jared kushner and cassidy hutchinson, sworn testimony, it was concerns about the president s cabinet finally after years of talking
we re beginning with chaos in the skies during what may be the busiest weekend so far this year for air travel. according to the flight tracking website flight aware more than 900 flights were canceled on sunday alone across the u.s. since friday there have been more than 3,000 flight cancellations. so the airlines are blaming weather problems and ongoing staff shortages, in particular a shortage of pilots, so can travelers expect more of this as we enter the peak summer travel season? cnn s aviation correspondent pete muntean is live at reagan national airport. a lot of unhappy travelers this morning, pete. reporter: no doubt, john. in fact, a lot of people probably still trying to get home even today after traveling this weekend. these new numbers are huge, but the cause of this really is not. we were reporting over and over again that airlines got a lot smaller over the pandemic and that has led to these massive flight crew shortages. the deck of cards really comes tum
this is cnn breaking news. it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. and we to begin with breaking news, the federal investigation into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. a source says a federal grand jury has subpoenaed pat cipollone but now, we are learning that the justice department is expanding its probe. katelyn collins is breaking the story. you are learning about another person in the trump white house is being subpoenaed? it s not just any person it s the number 2 lawyer in the trump white house at the end of the administration, his name is patrick philbin, the deputy white house counsel, so working alongside pat cipollone, they both now have been subpoenaed for both documents and testimony in this federal criminal probe conducted by the us attorney s office in d.c., the justice department and the fbi. when you take this together, this is aggressive grand jury activity from the justice department and federal prosecutors as they are